As part of their project on Re-profiling Street Food in Saint Louis, Senegal, the team of researchers at Gaston Berger University are putting together a website. Currently available in French, it will also be translated into English and Wolof. The Street Food Senegal website is being created as a media platform that will Offer applications … Continue reading Website: Re-Profiling Street Food in Senegal

A recent article in The Chronicle Review addresses the age-old question: Are the humanities in decline? Using data from the National Center for Education and other US-based surveys, the author points out that, despite the popular sentiment that the humanities are perpetually in crisis, there may be real cause for concern today. What catches the … Continue reading Are the Humanities in Crisis?

The French philosopher Jacques Rancière wrote, The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation, in 1987. In this book, Rancière builds on the method of 'intellectual emancipation' created by Joseph Jacotot who argued for a method of education that empowered students rather than teachers. Rancière agreed, argueing that the schoolmaster can even know less than … Continue reading Jacques Rancière, The Ignorant Schoolmaster, 1987

The Black Lives Matter syllabus was created by Professor Frank Leon Roberts at New York University. As Roberts writes, "From the killings of teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri; to the suspicious death of activist Sandra Bland in Waller Texas; to the choke-hold death of Eric Garner in New York, to the killing of 17 … Continue reading Frank Leon Roberts’ Black Lives Matter syllabus

Blue Alchemy: Stories of Indigo is an independent documentary film, funded by Women Make Films, a non-profit media organization. It was filmed in India, Japan, Bangladesh, Mexico, El Salvador, Nigeria, and the USA. It showcases the historical and geographic spread of indigo, both as a dye and as an idea. Description: "BLUE ALCHEMY: Stories of … Continue reading Watch: Blue Alchemy: Stories of Indigo